This seemed to be an appropriate thread in which to ask a few questions. I will be in Omaha on a consulting gig this week and will have about 4 hours of free time either Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon. I will have a car, so opted to drive to the Old Market district for lunch and to walk around a bi...

Looks like "SADDLECREEK 1011 LLC" owns all these lots: saddlecreek.JPG I don't know if it is important to note that 4856 Pacific is not owned by SaddleCreek 1011 LLC. That and the corner property at 1025 Saddle Creek are owned and operated as a day care by Donna Collins. It's the infant h...

The only way he's forced out is if the Dems take both houses of Congress in 2018. I would have thought this was a certainty at the end of 2016, but the Democrats are doing everything in their power to leave Congress in Republican hands. They're doubling down on the things that cost them in 2016, the...

Has anyone been to Umami in Bellevue. I hear it's crazy good---definitely on my list for my next Omaha visit. I haven't been there yet, but a guy who I really trust raves about it. He has eaten dozens of Michelin starred restaurants and some of the really pricey sushi places in New York and Tokyo. ...

Does Omaha really need another chain burger/pizza/whatever joint, or a chain anything? Omaha has plenty of home grown places that are much better than In& Out, Shake Shack, etc.. Sometimes I think the people posting this stuff are really cardiologists trying to drum up business. I think Omaha i...

If you really want to get new businesses to Omaha, then open a franchise. All it takes is money. I don't think Shake Shack does the franchise thing. If they did I would kidnap some of you, harvest your kidneys, and sell them on the black market to bring it here. Not that I'm a violent person, but I...

Being marketed on loopnet for $1.2 million. I must have posted this in a different thread, but Chef Jennifer got tired of waiting for this building to get ready, Rumors were also that she wanted rooftop access. I noticed they were doing a lot of rooftop repairs last year... That would have been the...

Per ASSOCIATED PRESS : Nebraska senators eye bill to avoid electoral vote-splitting http://kios.org/post/nebraska-senators-eye-bill-avoid-electoral-vote-splitting It makes the Nebraska GOP soooooo mad that the 2nd district electoral vote went to Obama is 2008. I'd like to see the process of electin...

They killed the voter ID measure. Excellent. While I can understand people's desires to protect the integrity of elections, the sort of election fraud these laws are ostensibly intended to combat are pretty rare. It's less risky and more effective to commit election fraud using other means than by h...

Voodoo Taco posted on Facebook that the owner/founder Eric Newton has passed away. WOWT had a link to their story on this on Facebook. Some of the comments on the Facebook post were unbelievably rude I think the comments sections on news stories are where the worst of all the internet trolls hang o...

The street repair issue might end up being the demise for the Stothert administration. If that's the case, we will end up footing the bill for the 300 miles of streets not up to city code. Hope not. I am genuinely angered when people intentionally screw us and get away with it. The people involved ...

The street repair issue might end up being the demise for the Stothert administration. If that's the case, we will end up footing the bill for the 300 miles of streets not up to city code. Hope not. I am genuinely angered when people intentionally screw us and get away with it. The people involved ...

While I don't think either would be an unmitigated disaster they both have positions or aspects which are nearly or actually disqualifying. Mello has support from Bernie Sanders, this is as damning as if Stothert had an endorsement from Trump. I can't in good conscience vote for someone with support...

We may be seeing some very reasonable airfares from United here in the near future. I don't think I would fly them if they paid me. If there is any justice (not holding my breath) the cops who beat that guy and the United employees who brought the situation about will pay out the wazoo to the victi...

The poll is an Internet poll based on multiple votes by mostly a local population base. It is a popularity contest, not a reflection of the subjective qualities that make a great zoo. It has been a bunch of years since I have been to the St. Louis zoo, and it was an outstanding zoo when I was there...

I keep seeing it said that the advantage of the Streetcar is that it conveys a sense of permanence, which entices developers to build nearby. I think this overstates things. It's certainly possible the developers are that unwise (after all Trump was a developer, and my two year old shows better reas...

If the city puts up the majority of the money for the streetcar and provides TIF for building this area out when the main lobbyists, Mutual, UNMC, and Kiewit stand to make millions in development this will be an especially galling example of corporate welfare. These developers should be putting sub...

So I keep seeing a late model black Bentley Continental (I think it's a Continental) in Dundee. While driving west on Underwood this morning (I had to get out to Le Petit Paris for some apricot croissants) I saw it parked across from the KFAB building. The car had a custom license plate that indicat...

Not every building needs to be salvaged and repurposed. Some buidlings (the Civic is certainly one of them) are crying out for the wrecking ball. The preservationist impulse is fine, but when pushed to the point of being a preservationist fetish it will cause a city to stagnate. Good riddance to a b...

They were up the hill from the petting zoo. The otters were named Mork and Mindy. I think it was Mindy that died, she was quite old. I learned this from the docent. Thanks for the info! There is nothing up that hill now, correct? That one building is closed, the wolves are out at the Safari Park, t...

Meanwhile, they've removed some of my favorite animals. Mostly the north american river otters, and the African wild dogs. The river otters were probably the most depressing removal. They're one of the only animals that is highly active in the winter too. I once watched them play hockey with chunks...

we need to legalize marijuana Now that you mention it, this alone would be enough to get many people from surrounding competing cities to move here. It would also increase tourism, stealing a good chunk from Colorado. I think some sort of political boundary between western and eastern Nebraska woul...

It could also be that Alexander Payne wants it to be a top quality establishment when it reopens. Maybe they are waiting on a chef or arranging new suppliers and a new menu or something. I don't know anything about the restaurant business, but I assume there could be dozens of explanations for the d...